Around Quote by Gotye

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

— Tracy Chapman

Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's…

— Brett Dennen

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head…

— John Scofield

The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are written with…

— Danny Carey

Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few…

— Jack Johnson

Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B…

— David First

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each…

— Robert Hunter

It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is,…

— Shura

Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that,…

— Frank Iero

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody…

— Chester Bennington

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

— Stephen Malkmus

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and…

— Mark Kozelek